Alexandria, VA – May 4, 2009 – WeatherBug®, a leading provider of consumer and professional weather services and operator of the world’s largest weather network, announces enhanced capabilities to WeatherBug Club Safety. Developed in partnership with the Club Managers Association of America (CMAA) and designed to provide specific benefits for club managers, golf professionals and course superintendents, WeatherBug Club Safety provides increased member and employee safety, enhanced member experience, better turf management and improved operations and event management. It now includes lightning data from the WeatherBug Total Lightning Network (WTLN), the first integrated intracloud (IC), critical for advanced prediction of severe weather, and a cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning detection network to be available on a nationwide basis.
Monitoring the onset and development of IC lightning can improve warning times over traditional radar technology for many severe weather events, including dangerous tornadoes and downpours. The detection of IC activity can also provide a 5-30 minute lead time for predicting hazardous cloud-to-ground lightning. Additionally, WeatherBug Club Safety offers enhanced mapping capabilities from its real-time weather visualization tool, StreamerRT, an advanced web-based mapping platform that enables greater customization and improved visualization to quickly analyze existing and potential weather conditions.
WeatherBug Club Safety includes a live GPS-enabled mobile weather alerting service, WeatherBug Protect. This can turn employees’ phones into potentially life-saving devices. No matter where staff is located, they can receive critical weather alerts. WeatherBug Protect is the first location-based mobile solution that proactively sends customized alerts such as lightning, high wind and heat index from the WeatherBug Network and the National Weather Service.
About CMAA – The Club Managers Association of America is the professional Association for managers of membership clubs. CMAA has close to 7,000 members across all classifications. Manager members run more than 3,000 country, golf, city, athletic, faculty, yacht, town and military clubs. The objectives of the Association are to promote and advance friendly relations among persons connected with the management of clubs and other associations of similar character; to encourage the education and advancement of members; and to assist club officers and members, through their managers, to secure the utmost in efficient and successful operations.
About WeatherBug – WeatherBug provides precise live weather information, the most relevant weather reports and weather warnings to safeguard property and lives and to help plan with confidence. With an international network of weather sensors and cameras primarily based at neighborhood schools and public safety facilities across the U.S., WeatherBug maintains the largest exclusive weather network in the world.
Contact:
Gerry Romano
(703) 739-9500
gerry.romano@cmaa.org
www.cmaa.org
